Lawsuits over injuries in parks could harm us all Re: “Government sued after tree falls on tent,” Jan. 17, and “Safe Sledding,” Editorial, Jan. 15. The story of a tobogganer suing the City of Hamilton and this story about a couple suing the government for a tree that fell on their tent during a thunderstorm […]

Mike Wasylyshen has had a noteworthy career as an Edmonton police officer. He has a criminal record for an off-duty assault of two men, one of whom was on crutches, he Tasered a teenager who was passed out drunk in a car, a provincial court judge ruled in 2003 that Wasylyshen once wilfully deceived a justice of the peace to wrongfully […]

This Oct. 31 is winding up to be a scary day for Dawn Hanson and about 100 of her feline friends — and not just because Halloween is notoriously dangerous for cats. Rather, Hanson is frightened because she must move out of the donated space where she has run her shelter for the past two years, and she has nowhere to place her beloved cats.

Recently, an influential and vocal supporter of euthanasia in the Netherlands changed his mind. Theo Boer, who not only supported euthanasia, but was a member of one of five Dutch regional euthanasia review committees for nine years — which approved thousands of deaths — now admits that he “was wrong — terribly wrong.”

For those Albertans who pine for the days of Peter Lougheed and all he embodied, your time seemingly has arrived. During a one-and-a-half hour editorial board meeting Wednesday with Progressive Conservative leadership candidate and front-runner Jim Prentice, I was struck by how often Lougheed’s legendary thoughtfulness, tone and command of all topics came to mind.

It was late on Tuesday when I finally got around to watching a recording of CBC’s The National. One of my 17-year-old sons flopped down next to me on the couch to take in the top of the news before continuing studying for his next-day exam. The lead story of the night? The contents of two innocuous celebratory emails by federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay sent out to staff to celebrate Mother’s Day on May 11 and Father’s Day on June 15.

Do not collect free parking. Do not pass go. Instead, go directly to (commuter) jail. That’s what Calgary voters should insist upon for our mayor and council. Why? Because while city councillors and the mayor dream up new and creative ways to make your life dreary drudgery, most of them continue to drive to work, never having to ponder the cost of the heated, reserved, free executive parking they receive under City Hall every day.

City hall folk sure talk a good game about caring for the homeless and the poor. Frankly, if that was all these bureaucrats and politicians did — engage in empty talk — that would be better than what is happening now. Instead, while they spout all the right platitudes, they actually cause harm to the homeless.

Years ago while living in Toronto, I interviewed the mother of a victim of a notorious sex murderer. After a long interview that left us both cried out, she said something that she asked me not to publish, as she felt it could further upset her other child.

Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Party is a survivor. That’s why Alison Redford is not. Redford had no choice but to resign as premier Wednesday evening because if she didn’t, the party would have found a way to push her out.

On Feb. 8, I wrote the following about Premier Alison Redford’s unnecessarily expensive $45,000 trip to South Africa: “If Redford knows what’s good for her, she’ll pay this money back, as these are the kinds of scandals that stick.” Needless to say, she didn’t listen to that free advice.

There’s a post on rock ‘n’ roll legend Neil Young’s Facebook page that makes claims about me that I feel I must address, because they are false. Referring to my Monday column entitled “Neil Young puts comfort ahead of convictions,” the post signed by someone named “The Passenger” states that: “After asking her sophomoric questions about planes and carbon footprints she took to sneaking around our buses. At that time she concluded that our engines were all running and texted that message to Sun Media News. Sun Media News dispatched a cameraman to the scene of the crime. He too began sneaking around our buses . . . I know, I was there, I talked to the fellow. When I explained that it was our generators and not our engines he understood completely. The Sun Media News Live Event truck uses that same system of generation. Ours differ notably in that they are all powered with bio-diesel. A fact I pointed out to the Sun Media News cameraman.”